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The field of mesoamerican archaeology.
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The mural discoveries at Calakmul
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Listeros, Archaeologist Carrasco Vargas and his team have been digging into 68 buried structures at Calakmul. They found a buried pyramid and dug a tunnel to inspect the interior and have found an area that had been remodeled many times over 600 years. And, in the process, have found many murals painted between 620-700 CE. 30 murals have been documented... more »
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More on the Nazca princess tomb
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Listeros, In an update on the tomb of an elite child found buried at Cahuachi during early Nazca, 300-450 CE, the unpaid Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Orefici who uncovered the tomb has made some further comments on the find. He has been paying for a guardian for the site out of pocket for 27 years. The young elite child he found was between 12-14... more »
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Scarlet Macaw trade at Paquime
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Listeros, In a follow up study on the breeding of macaws at Paquime for trade purposes from 1200-1450 CE, a new analysis of bones of pre-historic macaws at the site appears to show that the people of Paquime raised most of the macaw birds themselves and did not import the great majority of the birds from the tropics. Feathers were harvested for... more »
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Teotihuacan influence in Tlaxcala
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Listeros, INAH investigators have found evidence of Teotihuacan influence in eastern Tlaxcala. The site of Xalasco in Tlaxcala has been studied since 2005. 2 cultures lived there; the local Tenayac group and the other from Teotihuacan. 2 burials were uncovered, one buried with pottery and the other with various offerings, ceramics and animals... more »
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Calusa Mound 5 excavations
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Listeros, Archaeologists are digging at a Calusa mound at Brown's Mound Complex in Pineland, Florida. They are investigating Mound 5 at the site. The Calusa were the dominant tribe of south Florida when the Spanish arrived. They received tribute from as far away as the Keys and Cape Canaveral. So far, they have excavated lots of Belle Glade pottery... more »
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Oldest tool in the Americas uncovered
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Listeros, In a very important report in Nature Magazine, Dennis Jenkins, the archaeologist who found the pre-Clovis human coprolites dated to 14,000-14,270 years old in Paisley Cave in Oregon, now claims to have found the oldest human artifact ever found in the Americas--a scraper like tool that dates back to 14,230 years ago. The date was calculated... more »
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New finds at Chichen Itza
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Listeros, INAH is investigating a glyph series on a stela at the Casa Colorado building at Chichen Itza. There is an inscription on a stela that refers to the date 869 CE. The date may indicate the year the building was finished. Construction may have started on the building between 800-850 CE. If this date is correct, it would represent one of the... more »
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INAH follow up on Clovis in Sonora
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Listeros, I recently posted the story "Clovis roamed south" about the discovery of a Clovis site at El Fin del Mundo in Sonora. INAH has a follow up on the discovery. There is a 25,000 year old stratigraphic sequence at the site and the remains of a species that were part of the now extinct Gomphotheriidae family have been found there. INAH has been... more »
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The Nazca self destructed
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Listeros, Archaeologists studying the Nazca have found that they self destructed by destroying their forests around 500CE. The study was posted in the journal Latin American Antiquity. The Nazca cleared too much forest for agriculture and the Huarango tree was replaced by cotton and maize. The tree was crucial to the desert's fragile ecosystem and held... more »
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Corrected tiny URL for Maya underewater site story
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Listeros, The tiny URL I sent for the Underwater Maya site exploration in Lake Atitlan has been hacked and links to a Japanese porn site. Yikes! I will not use that tiny URL service any longer. I can imagine what would have happened if I were still teaching and had sent that story out to my students with that tiny URL. These are the hazards of online... more »
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